Bake At 350 Degrees? Oven Temperature Is Uncontrollable, And We Should Stop Trying To Micromanage It.

“Preheat oven to 350 degrees.” I hate this phrase. First, as George Carlin pointed out, it’s linguistically absurd—you don’t preheat an oven, you heat it. More importantly, however, it gives you a false sense of how much control you have over your o…